The Ho Chi Minh Trail at Sea was established on October 23, 1961, as a strategic maritime route for transporting weapons and goods to the southern battlefields, making major contributions to the great victory of 1975, when South Vietnam was liberated and the country was reunified.

From October 23, 1961 to the end of the resistance war against the US, more than 2,000 anonymous ships crossed over 4 million nautical miles to transport 80,000 cadres and soldiers, as well as more than 150,000 tonnes of weapons and goods from North Vietnam to the South.

Over 300 photos and objects in the exhibition, many of which are being shown to the public for the first time, depict the legendary trail and the journeys of the ‘ships without plates’.

The exhibition will travel to Haiphong and central coastal provinces, ending in the southernmost province of Ca Mau on October 23.